Rise of the Beasts 7th Movie production news

[griffin]

So, it looks like there were two potential movies being worked on at the beginning of the year (Bumblebee 2 & Beast Wars), but the Bumblebee 2 movie has won out, and a Director has already been chosen - Steven Caple Jr.

Caple is a bit like Travis Knight, in that he has very little Movie experience, but has had one big movie under his belt, with "Creed 2" (the most recent in the Rocky franchise).
Even Michael Bay had a very small resume when he signed up to the 2007 Transformers movie back in 2005... he just managed to have a couple of them generate big bucks for the film studios.

“In January, the studio made the decision to give the entire franchise a revamp by having two simultaneous scripts that are in active development: one by James Vanderbilt and one by Joby Harold. Harold’s film eventually would be chosen as the next installment in the franchise, and once he had given his final touches on the script at the end of the summer, the studio began taking director pitches on the next film.
After meeting with several top execs including Paramount Motion Picture President Emma Watts, the studio saw Caple as the best fit for the franchise that the studio chose to revamp at the top of the year.”

The main article can be seen here.

[Magnus]

To be honest, I'm a little dismayed that the Deadline article is describing a "reinvented universe". I was hoping for a Transformers 6 that would pick up where The Last Knight left off, as that movie was clearly leading into more with Unicron and Quintessa. I also didn't care much for Bumblebee.

Caple is a bit like Michael Bay, in that he has very little Movie experience, but has had one big movie under his belt, with "Creed 2" (the most recent in the Rocky franchise).

Don't you mean Travis Knight? Michael Bay directed his first movie in 1994 and has released one every 2-3 years since.

[Tha_Phantom]

Although I would have been happy with either a Bumblebee 2 or Beast Wars movie, I'm kinda glad BW lost based on the unrealistic fan predictions I've been seeing online about what a BW movie would be like. It was never going to be a remake of the '90s series.

[griffin]

Don't you mean Travis Knight? Michael Bay directed his first movie in 1994 and has released one every 2-3 years since.

Travis Knight is indeed a better comparison (which I have edited into my posting above)... but I was thinking back to 2005 when Michael Bay was first announced, that he didn't have much of a resume at that point, but had a pretty good strike rate (box office takings) on the 4 or 5 movies that he had done by then.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Looking forward to more Bumblebee goodness! I would wonder how a Beast Wars movie would work. Would it be completely animated?
Could the story even work with humans involved if were set in a modern era? I think it'd be extremely hard to pull off. I'd be fine with a completely animated version not featuring any humans though.

[Omega Metro]

but the Bumblebee 2 movie has won out

Thank goodness for that!

[shockNwave]

If they did go ahead with the BW movie, they would've used the ROTF fembot (played by lovely Isabel Lucas) as a reference point for the animal transformations.

[GoktimusPrime]

If they did go ahead with the BW movie, they would've used the ROTF fembot (played by lovely Isabel Lucas) as a reference point for the animal transformations.

I'm glad that never happened then. Alice's design as a Transformer was terrible, similar in the same way that I'm not a fan of most of the TF designs from AOE and TLK... a distinct lack of alt mode kibble in robot mode. Alice basically just flipped herself inside out when transforming to robot mode, whereas a Transformer to me should have distinct kibble on their bodies. With vehicular Transformers it's obviously stuff like doors, windows, wheels etc. With Beast Wars TFs we see animal parts on different parts of their bodies, but this is something distinctly missing on Alice. Thanks, I hate it.

[Bidoofdude]

I'm glad that never happened then. Alice's design as a Transformer was terrible, similar in the same way that I'm not a fan of most of the TF designs from AOE and TLK... a distinct lack of alt mode kibble in robot mode. Alice basically just flipped herself inside out when transforming to robot mode, whereas a Transformer to me should have distinct kibble on their bodies. With vehicular Transformers it's obviously stuff like doors, windows, wheels etc. With Beast Wars TFs we see animal parts on different parts of their bodies, but this is something distinctly missing on Alice. Thanks, I hate it.

Alice is barely a Transformer, and I doubt they really intended for her to be a fully blown one when the movie was made. Someone probably had an idea for a super sexy girl to turn out to be a killer alien robot as a story beat in the film and ran with it. Everyone points to it as a Pretender nod, but honestly I think we are just using our Transformers fan hats a little too much, they probably had no intent or even knowledge of the concept. The alt modes (and their corresponding kibble) that we do see in these films anyway are purely for marketing/placement purposes anyway, they have no reason to with a human.

Probably the same way all those random alien ships and stuff in DOTM are just generic alien things.

[SharkyMcShark]

200 million budget, filming in Canada.

Part of me wants to see a continuation of TLK, just because I'm curious where Bay was going with the Unicron horns.

Then again, knowing how he handles continuity the next film would probably not make any reference to that at all.